House number and step illuminator



C. P. PETERSON HOUSE NUMBER AND STEP ILLUMINATOR Filed May 8, 1925 WITNESSES wm/vma CLflEENCEPPEjEPOM ATTORNEYS Patente Nov. 27, 1923. I v j v STATES- PATENT orrica. v

CLARENCE P. PETERSON, F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

HOUSE NUMBER AND STE? ILLUKIN'ATOB.

Application filed Kay 8, 1923. Serial No. 637,584.

To all whom it may concern: adapted to be driven and anchored into the Be it known that I, CLARENCE -P. Pn'ranriser 13 of a step. The riser is cut away as soN, a citizen of the United States, and a at.14 to provide an opening for snugly re- 5 resident of the city of New York, borough ceiving the casing 10. The open front end of Brooklyn, in the county oif Kings and is adapted to be closed by a door 15 which is State of New York, have invented a new and hinged thereto as at 16 and is maintained in Improved House Number and Step Illumiclosed condition by a suitable latch 17. The nator, of which the following is a full, clear, door is-in the nature-of a rectangular frame and exact description. having vertical spaced front and rear guide 16 This invention has relation to illuminated rooves 18 and 19 in its side rails 20, the signs and has particular reference to a comormer adapted to receive a transparent bined house'number and step illuminator. panel 21 upon which the housing number The outstanding object of the resent indigits 22 are suitably inscribed. The rear 05. vention resides in the provision 0 means for grooves 19 are designed to receive a colored 1 eilectually displaying the number of a house transpicuous anel 23 which serves to mask after dark, and which means at the same from view'the interior of the casing 10 time serve to properly illuminate the step or when the lamp 24 is lighted. The panel 23 steps in order to. preclude accidents due to further serves as means for protecting the stumbling while ascending or descending the. front panel 21 from the heat of the lamp to same. v whereby to prevent said heat from efiecting As a further object the invention conthe numerals or digits of the house number.

templates a housing number and step illumi- In practice the rays of the lamp when lighted ouse '1 nator which is extremely simple in its coneffectually illuminate and display the struction, inexpensive to manufacture and number, while at the same time the upper- 25 produce and which is readily applicable to .most step is properly illuminated to prethe riser of'a step. elude accident-a1 stumbling either in ascend- With the above recited and other objects ing or descending the steps. It is of course in view, the invention resides in the novel understood that the hinged door 15 permits construction set forth in the application of the gaining of access to the interior of the 30 specification, particularly pointed out in the casing 10 for the purpose of replacing a appended claim and illustrated in the acburnt outlamp or renewing either of the companying drawing, it being understood panels 21 or 23, if broken. that the right is reserved to embodiments I claim: an other than those actually illustrated herein A combined house number and step illumito the full extent indicated by the general nating device comprising a casing adapted meaning of the terms in which the claim is to be fitted in the opening of a riser of a ex ressed. front step, a door hingedly mounted on the n the drawingopen front end of the housing, a transpicn- Figure 1 is a lperspective view of the numous panel' removably' carried by said door at) berand step ii u'rninator in its applied pohaving inscribed thereon digits representing sition. r the number of said house, illuminating means Fig. 2 is an enlarged front view of the within the housing adapted to cast light rays same removed. through the panel for displaying the house Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken number and simultaneously illuminating at approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. the step, and a colored transpicuous panel Referring to the drawing by characters of mounted in spaced relation in rear of the reference the combinated number and step first panel for protecting said first panel illuminator consists of a box-like housing or from the heat of the illuminating means and casing 10 which is provided adjacent its for masking from view the interior of the t0 front open end with laterally projecting casing.

apertured ears 11. through which screws, nails, or other fastening elements 12 are CLARENCE P. PETERSON. 

